Now, some of you may have experienced this. Playing two games that are undeniably similar, and doing similar things for mere tradition. Take me, for example. In Zelda games, I'm always Glenn. In ALMOST every other offline RPG, I'm Ocin, unless the name simply doesn't fit. In every run of Chrono Cross, I get Guile, call him Magil, and then for the rest of the game, use Serge, Kid, and Magil (Guile).
Now, this had happened to me with Final Fantasy I (GBA). In every run of it, my team goes like this:
Warrior - Nico
Red Mage - Nano
Black Mage - Mowse
White Mage - Miki (Stairs fixed)
Now, I have played FF3 before, and in the beginning, I used this party, in that order. I even forgot the real names of the characters due to this, and I can't easily remember because I changed the order of the characters to fit their jobs.
Now, as everyone knows, Red Mages seem to become the lesser ones as the game goes on. Their magic ends soon, and they are inferior to other attackers. However, I've also found this game to be somewhat easy in my half-play through, in which I was changing jobs constantly, and my Job Level ended up being terrible. Now, I have two questions:
Firstly, can one easily survive the game while having a Red Mage in there for a majority of the game?
And secondly, as I am keeping the same party until I have all the jobs which are worthy successors to my current party, which job do you think best suits the Red Mage's successor? Something that smacks, or something that casts?
Thanks very much in advance.